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Activision says it’s fixed an anti-cheat hack in Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone
People who weren’t cheating got banned anyway.
As a result, zebleer says that “for quite some time,” it has been possible to get someone permanently banned simply by sending them a friend request with the phrase or posting a message like “Nice Trigger Bot dude!” in the game’s chat since it would then show up in their memory and get scanned by Ricochet. Despite Activision saying a “small number” of legit accounts were affected, zebleer claims that “several thousand random COD players were banned by this exploit” before anyone started targeting big streamers. Zebleer points to BobbyPoff, a Call of Duty streamer, as one of the people banned due to the person using the exploit since October 3rd before his account was suddenly unbanned yesterday.
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